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Tahrir’s name and look has been changed many times over the years and through good and bad times, it is still Egypt’s biggest square.
It is also the icon of freedom Tahrir was first named as the Ismailia Square after the Khepe Ismail who built it on the French Champs Elysees’ style.
It has become the changing axis for the Egyptian people for more than 100 years.
It was their launching point against colonialism, injustice and corruption, thus, its name successfully changed to the Tahrir Square after 1919 and 1952.
The square has lived with the Egyptians through many revolutions including the uprising of the 18th and 19th of January, 1977, the 25th of January, 2011 revolution and the 30th of June, 2013 revolution.
Its great architectural design made it the heart of Cairo with its veins reaching to Cairo’s oldest neighborhoods and different historical eras.
The different veins lead to the construction of Islamic Cairo, the Khepial Cairo, the ancient Egypt, ElKasr El-Aeni and finally to the Ramses Square where Cairo’s oldest markets lied.
Tahrir is a circular square surrounded by the Egyptian museum, the Arabic league building, the Tahrir complex and Cairo’s oldest hotel from every angle.
Due Due to its obvious historical and geographical importance, the Egyptian government added a pharaonic obelisk and four of the famous rams in Luxor to the square as part of its development.
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Contributed by Yasmine el Sayed
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